This is a special request from former University of Rochester student and Open Letter intern Will Eells. He's working on an interesting study of translators and thought some of Three Percent's readers would be interested in participating.
Hello Three Percent readers!
The Johnson O’Connor ...

This week's podcast goes off the rails pretty quickly, and includes a hungover dismissal of this version of The Book of Disquiet, the phrase "reclaim some of the douchery" is spoken, there is a lot of laughter, a discussion about the tensions between trying to read this as poetry vs. the expectations ...

Sticking more or less to their biweekly schedule, Chad and Tom reconvene to talk about a couple recent articles, the challenges of being a literary nonprofit, interesting books they're reading, humblebrags about the Words Without Borders and PEN galas, and more. Surprising lack of sports talk this week, ...

Mamma's Boy by David Goudreault
Translated from the French by JC Sutcliffe
192 pgs. | pb | 9781771663823 | $20.00
Book*hug
Review by Rafael Sanchez Montes
This incredibly fun novel is a first-person account and confession by the unnamed protagonist, who offers his side of the ...

OK, I’m supposed to be packing for my summer vacation right now, so this is going to be a lot shorter than it otherwise would be. But! I just updated the Translation Databases! Not just the spreadsheets for 2016 and 2017, but every spreadsheet I’ve ever run. There’s up to date info on ...

It's Best Translated Book Award build-up time, which lasts, like four months . . . Anyway, here's Kasia Bartoszynska's overview of a number of exciting titles vying for the BTBA 2019!
The holiday season is not yet upon us, but for us judges, there’s an exciting new gift in the mail almost daily, in ...